jerry brown taking action in an effort to drive down the cost of gasoline. the governor's allowed winter blend gasoline to be sold in california earlier than usual to bring down the prices. the dramatic surge came after a power outage last monday to a southern california refinery that reduced supply. prices were expected to stabilize in the coming days. >>> let's get to london for an update on the markets this morning overseas, cnbc's ross westgate joins us with an update, has it changed much? there's a lot of red behind you there. >> not an awful lot, andrew, since we spoke about an hour or so ago. not quite at the session low. 8:1 decliners outpacing advancers on the dow jones stock 600. ule though it looks dramatic the numbers aren't bad when you consider the gains we had last week. the cac up nearly 3%, the ftse was up over 2%. today down three-quarters for the ftse. angela merkel will go to greece tomorrow for the first time since the financial cries sois we wi crisis so we'll monitor the reception she gets there but they're still working out whether or